A BRILLIANT TERRIFYING BRITISH HORROR!!! AN INSTANT CLASSIC

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2018)

28 days later (2002) is an instant CLASSIC in my opinion, it was a huge hit back when it first hit the cinema in 2002 & i saw it on the big screen & it was so exciting & scary as hell!!!
British films in general are not usually that good at all especially Horror movies so when 28 came out i was blown away by this terrifying infection film.
This is the greatest "Infection" or "Infected" film ever made or side by side with Eli Roth's CABIN FEVER, & the greatest Zombie movie ever made is the George Romero 1985 Masterpiece "Day of the Dead"
My other favourite "Infected" movie is Eli Roth's 2002 Cabin Fever & then there's the excellent, Will Smith infection Thriller "I Am Legend" all great films in the Infection Sub-genre.
The look of the film is amazing, it's very real & very gritty & has a very unsettling atmosphere. The infected people are ridiculously scary lol the make up fx look stunning & no use of c.g.i so it's amazing to look at the infected running through the abandoned London streets!!!
There's so much good stuff in this film that makes this a classic Horror movie.
28 days later also has that very old school feel to it, that dark & moody gritty low budget approach like those old 70's Horror Thriller films such as SHIVERS (1975) & RABID (1977) two excellent Infected David Cronenberg films & 28 has that feel intentional or not?
The cast are excellent & give great performances especially, Cillian Murphy who gives the standout performance here & who became a big Movie star after this in America. Also we an excellent Naomie Harris as the tough & brutal warrior survivor, Salena, also a strong solid performance from the great Brendan Gleeson (Lake Placid) as a good man & father trying to keep his daughter safe & another great performance comes from Christopher Eccleston as a sinister Army captain with scary motives, a superb all British cast of top talent here!!!
The empty London here looks so scary & menacing, also the music is excellent some times very sad & scary that it captures the loneliness & other times very almost 80's style but always excellent!!!
So yes a very surprisingly excellent British infection film by a director that i would Never usually be interested in or watch his films at all!!! I Hated the DEPRESSING & GRIM overrated "Trainspotting" & i didn't like "The Beach"
But his, 28 days later is a great film & is extremely powerful & suspenseful & is actually an important film in the genre.
Raw, real & scary as hell, also scarily more relevant each year!!!